Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-21

passengers. I called out to those on
board to fire rockets. It was long before
they did so. The greatest confusion pre-
vailed. The ship was over on her port
side before they fired rockets. I waited
till the water put out the fires, then I cot
hold OF belt, but the Dutch sailors
snatched it away. We were all mixed
together, foreigners and English clinging
to one another in the water. I saw sew
eral
DROWNED IN THIS WAY.
and had great difficulty to keep clear Of
them. gave spar to woman to hold
on to. The Dutch sailors wanted to save
themselves end thrust the woman aside.
can swim well, and kept up until 1 got
to the E5ro, where rope was thrown to
me. Alter the collision I went down in the
cabin and woke two ladies, but they were
paralyZed with terror. l heard other
complaints shout the conduct of the
Dutch sailors. The confusion was ex-
treme. Everybody was terror stricken.
This may account for the apparent waat
Of discipline. The frantic passengers uu-
nerVed some Of the crew, Preventing them
from acting IS brsvely as they might have
done. The captain did his best to restore
order. I believe q good lookout was
kept. We had our lights up"
Mr.. Appleby, one Of the passengers,
says: az was in my oerta when the crash
came. I Immediately rushed on deck,
followed by e confused crowd. On first
reaching the deck | did not think any
thing
MUCH WAS THE MATTER
unul l saw the port bow was stove in
close to the rigging snd laid open for
great space. The passengers crowded
the deck and the captain and officers
shou ed that all boats be lowered.
The vessel was then settling
down by the head and the
excitement was at its worst. had hard
~ time to look around me before the
vessel turned over on her port side throw
ing the passengers and crew together on
that side of the vessel. Most of the boats
were then worthless. Two boats on the
port side were swung about and lowered,
but the other six were useless. While
the sailors were endeavoring to lower the
boats the passengers hindered them by
running frantically against them. The
crew tried to keep the passengers back,
thus losing time. When the boats were
finally lowered there was
RUSH TO GO INTO THEM.
tried to, but could not. then decided
to trust to life belt. The passengers
and crew were crowded together, and
the shrieks of the women and the cries
and shouts of men were frightful. Some
of the passengers were on their knees
praying. When the Scholton sank there
was struggle in the lev water. Many of
Us had life belts. Sarah Gold Robson
and 1 kept together. We held to each
other and drifted toward Eoro, finally
reaching that vessel"
The second officer declares that every
precaution hsd been taken on board the
Scholton. A good lookout was kept and
all the Officers were on the bridge. The
captsin was last seen at his post trying
to quiet the passengers and get the boats
OFF.
Among the bodies landed at Dover are
the following:
A woman with letter ADDRESSED to A.
J. Hamilton, Brussels.
d. SCHMIDT.
A Jew with q letter addressed to L.
Benitein Hermann, 1913 Stanton Street,
New York.
A man with letter addressed to John
Rockwell, SanduskY.
Henry Blance of Ohio is the only cabin
passenger.
friedman, merchant of Kowal.
The other bodies are mostly females.
The engineer, after being in the water
three hours, was rescued and landed at
New Haven.